New to ZPE, eh? Welcome to the best ZPE site on the net! I enjoyed reading your post, keep 'em coming!

You mention ZPE is sometimes called "free energy" and the impossibility of 100% efficiency...keep in mind the difference between efficiency and COP (Coefficient of Performance) You are correct in stating that no device can be 100% efficient, but a device CAN have a COP > 1, which simply means the device is outputting more power than the "operator" has to put into it to keep it going.

A windmill is the classic example of a device having a COP greater than 1, and in this case, it's almost infinity! That's because we "pay" very little to start the device, and once started it will happily output power 'til the cows come home (provided there's wind)

It's not 100% efficient by any means...but it's about as close to "free energy" as we can get because it's converting energy from one form to another, using that same energy to power itself, and it costs us almost nothing to start the process.

I envision Bearden's MEG and other ZPE devices perhaps working in a similar fashion, only in this case the "wind" is energy from the vacuum or ZPE. It's a rough analogy, I know, but it's one that has helped me understand such terms as free energy, efficiency, COP and over unity.

Keep reading and posting, there’s a lot to learn from some of the folks on this list, and there’s lots of interesting ideas being tossed around!